skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meetup is a pretty good alternative to bowling now in days.

That and alumni groups, back in 2019 this was a part of my strictly offline dating strategy. Worked ridiculously well, I never encountered even any rudeness from anyone and I had a few great partners. Aside from that I really do enjoy going to tech talks and stuff, talking about array functions and all that good stuff.

What I have noticed, and I completely blame the social media age for this is how rare it is for spontaneous conversations to happen. I was elated when a young man saw me writing python on my computer and asked what I was working on, a few years back. And I gave him some career advice he was a recent graduate.

A chance encounter like that can give him his first job. I hope when Corona ends we become disinterested in these supercomputers we carry around all day, and start living in the now.

>Our connections to other people require and encourage us to behave in ways that maintain those connections.

I think the sums up why the internet is so absurdly mean. if I go and say something horribly racist or misogynistic in the real world, I can expect consequences. I can expect no longer be welcomed in certain spaces, or get kicked out of my favorite bar or whatever. Online I can say whatever horrible things I can come up with, often just a mess of people and get a new username the next day.
I wish someone who figure out how to make a paddling machine, it much better for your core, back and overall everything than a rowing machine.
Ask HN: Can being a failed YC company hurt you?
I was looking through the list of inactive companies on Y Combinator's startup directory and got to wondering: does it hurt to be an inactive company in their directory? Like, will potential future investors see that your last company failed and hold that against you?
The USS Akron (ZRS-4) and USS Macon (ZRS-5) “flying aircraft carriers”
"The United States Navy airships U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5) were designed for long-range scouting in support of fleet operations. Often referred to as flying aircraft carriers, each of the helium-inflated airships carried F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk biplanes which could be launched and recovered in flight, greatly extending the range over which the Akron and Macon could scout the open ocean for enemy vessels."
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon for 4 years.

I rode ~25 minutes to work every single day of the year. My best was -44C (-47.2F). It's like a whole different world at that temperature, and a lot of fun! (especially when the northern lights come out at 4pm.

Mostly in the winter it was around -30C or -35C.
Yeah I thought it was interfering with the interview too.
MOST seaplanes have piston engines that use 100LL AvGas, which is a gasoline with lead in it (the LL stands for "low lead" as opposed to "unleaded" in car gas). The lead keeps airplane engines, especially older ones from knocking.

These planes are DHC-2 DeHaviland Beavers, which traditionally do have radial engines that would require leaded gas. So there is some significance to the rumors.

BUT... Harbour Air (the airline featured in this article) is a large seaplane airline that have converted all their Beavers to Turbo-Beavers, so they use Turbo-prop engines, which is essentially a jet engine with a propeller on the shaft instead of a fan (turbo-fan is what most commercial jetliners use, these are essentially the same type of engine but using a propeller to convert engine revolutions into propulsion as opposed to a fan). So in this case, Harbour Air's beavers actually use Jetfuel which does NOT have lead in it.
"One key lesson we can derive from Bowling Alone is that the less we trust each other—something which is both a cause and consequence of declining community engagement—the more it costs us. Mistrust is expensive."
It will be interesting to have this information when you are thinking of what to order or cook. Instead of calories, show me the impact it will have on my health.
Ship building technology development is an important factor you didn't factor in. You'd need a ship that can survive crossing the pacific and also enough rations of food to survive the trip.

In this case they also used some desalination tech to survive those 14 months, per the article.

Edit: More details:

https://www.historylink.org/File/9065

> The crew had an adequate food supply (rice from the cargo, supplemented with fish and an occasional seagull). They could collect rainwater for drinking. They probably had on board a device called a ranbiki, normally used to brew sake, which they could have used to desalinate water from the sea. They also could have distilled saltwater simply by boiling it. But they had no source of vitamin C. By the time the ship washed ashore near Cape Flattery on a wintery day in 1834, there were only three survivors. Most of their crewmates had died of scurvy.

(That essay seems to have a lot of other interesting details, by the way.)
Reminds me of the Overwatch moderation system used by Valve to collect cheater data from human evaluators in Counter-Strike. Eventually, they leveraged that data to improve their automated cheat detection systems. [0]

Although Twitter's problem is way harder, IMO.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc
Forget about that, way too advanced!

I had a customer support on the phone insisting I was not giving them a valid email. “It should have something like @gmail.com or @yahoo.com”.
> Viruses can't really "adapt" to "not being spread".

Of course they can. We have this pandemic because a coronavirus became highly transmissible.
There's XSL:FO which allows you to transform XML into PDF documents, and you would not want to be writing that every time you wanted to add some basic styling to a webpage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
"5 signs that you're about to have stroke"... Shows a photo of something common like someone scratching their arm.

Taboola is the lowest of the lowest when it comes to advertising. 100% pure trash.
Hmmm. How society treats people who have made mistakes? How people are treated for mistakes seems to rely on how likable a person is to begin with and how egregious the offense. So, I don’t see that critique of social forgiveness going far in broad terms.

It is a fact, however, that mistakes have consequences the costs of which can be far reaching—financially, socially, for many years to come.

Like any great fall the question is how quickly you can accept change and move forward. Even harder is to accept yourself as society has weighed your ...contributions. (Ie. corruption)

The problem then becomes, of course, how can you rebuild when your resources are also diminished (financial, mentoring, clear thinking, network).

But a really charismatic person who is just fun to be around, they’ll bounce back.
For context one short seller (Citron Research) published this video explaining their belief that GME is a $20 stock.[1]

The way I see it, Citron believes this fiasco is irrational thought about the future of Gamestop and its value.

I think this is actually about the common retail trader manipulating the 'market manipulators'. In other words, let Citron taste their own medicine.

I think Citron failed to realize in the beginning that they were playing a different game than retail traders. Citron believes this is about value investing. WallStreetBets thinks this is a David vs Goliath situation, regardless of the stock they are fighting over.

[1] https://twitter.com/citronresearch/status/135234404324660838...
> But these electric planes are just clearly worse than conventional planes.

This just isn't obviously true in all cases. Here we are talking about a successful small private airline that doesn't seem to be run by idiots, so it's pretty easy to make the jump to "huh, I'm probably missing something here". After all, it's not like they've committed to converting their fleet, just a pilot project to prove it out. Seems sensible.
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Buy US treasuries? Those rates are still positive (0.09% - 1.66%). Since the capital is essentially free even if you get a blended rate of return of say 0.2% that is still real money. As an example USDC has $5.1 billion dollars in outstanding tokens issued that's $10 million a year at 0.2% just to sit on it.
The "paradox" of tolerance is only a paradox if you tolerate actions other than speech. If you only tolerate speech, there's no paradox - as soon as speech translates to actual harm, the hammer is brought down.
With variable electronic resistance and a rotating handle it should be possible, it should be possible in theory. It's definitely not something everyone is going for. I think you could improve form a lot just by helping people make sure their getting full extension and going through the motions in the correct order.
What do you mean a microphone in a thermostat? You mean nest?
I consider rand, clap, tokio, serde, and hyper, among others, to be canonical Rust libraries.

There may be alternatives, but a new person might be wondering "how do I generate a random number in Rust" and not want to roll their own RNG or find another library.

And that's not to say you have to use any of those in any particular project, just that they are the main options for achieving their particular functionality.
I'm not sure religious participation is the answer. Organized religion is responsible for plenty of misinformation. In the recent pandemic, there have been multiple superspreader events at unauthorized religious gatherings.

Maybe sports leagues or mandatory national (or state) service?
Thanks, finally somebody telling what data is on the leak.

> Information on the more than 104 million vehicles reveals important details, such as chassis number, license plate, municipality, color, make, model, year of manufacture, engine capacity and even the type of fuel used. In the case of legal entities, the following were leaked: CNPJ, corporate name, trade name and date of foundation.

Every piece of information on this list is either plainly visible (for cars) or published by the government.

The article talks about data of real people (not companies), but doesn't say what leaked about them.
Virtually all off-grid solar installations use some kind of an MPPT controller with a battery setup. The controller is always charging the battery (when there is power output from the panels), and the consumer power output is supplied by the batteries. This way you get much higher peak current output than the panels could provide, you also ensure stability.

In fact, many cabin installations don't even use inverters to convert into AC. They instead use DC appliances. So no, going through AC makes no sense in this scenario.

As for DC voltage levels, that of course is dependent on solar panel configuration and battery cells configurations/packing. Virtually all electric cars have a built in charger with a switching power supply that's already doing the DC voltage conversion. What I was remarking was that there is a lot of duplicate electronics that perform the same function and that a lot of intermediary steps can be eliminated.
Even worse, what if you have artificial eyes and one day the manufacturer blocks your vision functionality because you did something they disagree with politically? It used to be your account would get banned, now with cancel culture you can be banned from participating in media and society altogether, tomorrow maybe your ability to participate in your own body's functionality may be subject to the whims of the censors and the morality police
Which would mean you're constantly sending a photo of yourself with your thumbs up to people, and it becomes trivial to fake.

I guess it could be "we need a selfie video of you reading this 6 digit number aloud".
Regarding security, I think people would be really freaked out by the scope of attacks. One infusion pump I worked on this year was succesfully attacked over 200 times.
Most high-level rowers develop back problems, but these aren't primarily from the rowing machine, and your chances of developing the same kinds of problems while casually working out to meet your daily fitness goals are basically zero.

E.g. almost all high-level swimmers have shoulder problems, but no one who just goes for a swim a few times a week is going to injure their shoulders. Almost all baseball players have ankle problems, but no one who plays baseball with friends after work is at risk of this.

The reason rowers get back problems is basically a combination of overuse, the asymmetric load-bearing motion of sweep, and underdeveloped antagonistic muscles. Given the device and the target market, none of these issues are really at play here.
Not only does the C2 has an USB interface, but recent models have Bluetooth as well...! (I'm a happy C2 owner)

I found an example project some time ago of a web site using Chrome's Bluetooth JavaScript API to recreate a rowing monitor and filed it away in case I would ever get to that side project :-)

In case someone's interested to collab: I would build a 3D world through which you row. I know apps/games like these exist but an open version would be great (also the ones I found seemed to have so-so 3d graphics). And compatibility with VR headsets too..!

Just to add to this: an Apple TV-compatible, 3D rowing app would be supremely interesting to consider...

Building a web-based C2 monitor via Bluetooth:
https://bandarra.me/2017/02/20/Fitness-Tracking-with-Web-Blu...

Interacting with Bluetooth over JS:
https://web.dev/bluetooth/

The Bluetooth communications spec from C2!
https://www.concept2.co.uk/files/pdf/us/monitors/PM5_Bluetoo...
Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation
There was another castaway who eventually did return to Japan and was made a samurai because of his English skills and potential utility to the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjir%C5%8D

Otokichi's Wikipedia article also indicates that he was given permission to live in Japan again.
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I think you're spot on about a lot of these points. On your last "unpopular view" about religion, religious groups can be like any other group of people in that each group falls somewhere on a spectrum between warm and welcoming vs. aggressively tribal. I think the sentiment is right, though – maybe "civic engagement" is what we're after here.
Exactly, the smaller your chip is the more you can fit on a silicon wafer.

If your chip is too large it can even make it practically impossible to manufacture at scale due to the increased chance of defects as your chip size increases.
I had a similar experience as a false positive for fraud, it was enormously frustrating and time consuming to clear my name, often having to be very adversarial and threaten legal action to the companies, before they finally cleared me for what turned out to be a mistake on their end.
Yes, with walrus expression, lambda gains a lot of flexibility
But presumably the maintenance requirements to carry passengers aren't discretionary - if the rules say gas engines must be rebuilt every 2500 operating hours at a cost of $10,000 whereas electric planes don't, there's a cost saving regardless of how many accidents are due to pilot error.
this is a very appropriate thing for Valve to be working on considering their logo
Did you read the article? It talks about setting up a "Logic App" to send the notification. A Logic App is one of those awful visual "apps" that non-programmers can use, exclusive to Azure.
People complain about Google but Taboola is a hundred times more toxic with their garbage ads cluttering up the bottom half of so many media sites' pages. Being shown the same ad for shoes a hundred times the day after I bought them is nothing next to shock-image ads into content farms.
The more guessing and conjecture I hear about the effectiveness of current vaccines on mutations, the angrier I get. Are there any clinical trials going on right now to determine how well various strains respond to the current vaccines? Until Pfizer or Moderna puts out a press release saying their products cover the top 4 major strains, I'm not believing anything.
From start to finish, an individual action potential lasts about 1ms, followed by a few millisecond refractory period. There is probably not much biologically-relevant activity happening at faster timescales.

However, one often wants to "sort" spikes so that those arising from individual neurons are grouped together. To do so, you need to sample fast enough to capture the shape of the action potential, not just the fact that it happened. This usually requires sampling rates in the 10s of kHz. (~30 kHz would be good).
Unfortunately, I think the numerous tangential and unsubstantiated comments in this very thread suggest that the strategy has been highly successful. While I imagine Dominion could win against Giuliani, he is only one person and this disinformation has been spread through many channels. I expect we will see it again.

Edit: grammar.
Chomsky has explained that the counter-culture of the 60’s was viewed as the “crisis of democracy” by the Trilateral Commission. An excess of democracy: special interests like women, the elderly, environmentalists, ethnic minorities, and so on were trying to enter the public arena. In short: the general population.

(What is a non-special interest? Business interests.)

It is completely illogical to immediately conclude that people who are complaining and pointing out that things are not right are necessarily themselves the cause of all that strife. Maybe they were responding to antecedent causes?
This article, and then working through the book "Hacking and the Art of Exploitation" taught me the true fundamentals of the C programming language, and Linux. The other key ingredient was working through the classic "digital evolution" wargames where you'd SSH into a box as level1 and work your way up from there.
> If you read into the federated technology they've been deploying I'm fairly comfortable saying I agree with their decisions.

I don't, not in this case. The only thing that FLoC seems to change is how data is aggregated and how buckets are determined. But fundamentally, the idea of taking users, putting them into a box based on their normal browsing habits behind the scenes, and then broadcasting that box and associated data to every website they visit -- that's just not a private model.

What Google doesn't seem to understand (or chooses not to understand) is that the end result of bucketing users and sharing data about them behind the scenes while they browse is the part that many people object to. So Google keeps on trying to come up with systems that allow them to serve different content to people and to collect demographic info based on variables and processes outside of users' control -- but to somehow do it in a way that is magically not a problem.

But it's like trying to create a 'nice' mugging. It's not just the methods I'm opposed to, it's also the end goal.

FLoC still doesn't give users control over how they present themselves on the web. And part of privacy -- part of the reason I care about privacy in the first place -- is because people should have control over how they present themselves on the web. There are tools Google could build if they wanted to go in that direction, but FLoC remains an opaque system that runs in the background that collects data about you and sends it to every website that you visit. That's not a private system, regardless of how the data is collected. It's not designed to be transparent, it's not designed around user consent.

Honestly, it shouldn't even be an opt-in/opt-out system. Why can't I choose what buckets I belong to? Google isn't thinking deeply about user choice, they're not even being remotely imaginative about how they could give users more power over what ads are shown to them. They're still stuck in a mindset of "this needs to happen behind the scenes outside of your control where you don't know what we think about you. And we'll let you opt out of the entire system purely because we're forced to. But nothing else!"
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A quick search shows the Windows Terminal specific parts of the bug have been fixed: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/2865

Also a lot of suggestions in that quick search to try Ctrl+2 or Ctrl+@ as an alternative.
You, myself, everyone -- we're jaded. Got it.

Not much concerned with descriptions, so what's your prescription:

What do you believe to be satisfactory wording in this case?
Apple forgot about M1 support for “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output
This is really cool. I wish Wear OS or Fitbit had something like this other than "remember to get up and walk around".
Y'all need to read Marx.
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I am sure that is a consideration. The performance of a turbine Beaver is also not as much of an improvement as a converted Otter.

Margins on transportation flights are thin. Margins on flightseeing are not. The company I worked for chartered a Beaver between $600-$700 an hour and a turbine Otter at double that. Seats for 45-minute flightseeing (through a national monument) were priced at $185-$250. 6 pax in an Beaver and 10 in an Otter.
> is there a well known name for opposite of FUD?

False hope
Technically it would have been more precise to define "Value Proposition" as "(The result of) a reductive process in the early stages of product definition that...".

Having said that, this kind of syndoche where a process is described by its output doesn't seem particularly unusual or UX-specific. When a coworker says it'll take an hour to do requirements I know what they mean.

I'm not sure why you think "definition" (1: the act of defining https://www.dictionary.com/browse/definition) cannot have stages.
I don't know. Those who genuinely enjoy reactive frameworks will still be able to use them, but those that don't won't need to to get similar scalability benefits.
I'm fairly certainly he's a real person. His username means he went to Yale and graduated in 1988 (a 1998 Eli, Eli being slang for someone attending Yale).

He posted a video of his daughter singing a song on YouTube about 9 months ago.

And the most heartbreaking is his post about what its like to date someone vastly richer than you, which is to say, pretty awful.
Stocks Are Doing Something They Haven't Done Since the Dot Com Bubble
The Soul-Killing, Wallet-Emptying Struggle to Buy a Video Card During a Pandemic
this reminds me about a civic trust study that was done globally: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/70
Are we even at “zero throttle” now? Or have we gone from 150mph to 45?
Thank you SO for being open and listing the best practices. It seems like even few security best practices makes it harder for hackers to get in to your system.

I have database connecting strings and password as ENV variables. But I still don't know what is the best practice. Lets say someone gets access to the server, they can still read the ENV vars, right? It definitely prevents from accidently checking in your code git repo. But still . Does anyone has good recommendation for storing credentials like database passwords in a way secured way.
They probably going to remove this restriction as part of payable services.